Photo & Video Learning Guides

There's a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario with creative work: in order to get work (or better work) you have to prove that you are reliable. To prove you are reliable you have to have made creative work. These assignments will help you build up that critical photography and video experience.

Retouching and restoration are the parts of the post-production process where an image is cleaned, corrected, and, in some cases, made usable again. In this learning guide you will learn how to remove unwanted dust, scratches, camera malfunctions, lens deficiencies, exposure problems, and more.

In our article for International Women’s Day
we looked at the contributions women have made to photography and how
they’ve shaped photography for their own goals. Inspired by the women we
profiled, we're continuing with the 2015 theme for International
Women’s Day and, over the year, will profile women who are currently
“making it happen” in photography and video.

Street photographers use the general public and public
spaces as their subject matter. Street photography is closely
tied to the spontaneous and unpredictable. It requires more improvisation and intuition
to execute than many other types of photography.

This series will to help you decide who you are as a street photographer, what you want, and how you plan to get
it. How you handle yourself on the
street, your methodologies for taking photographs, and your motives for being
there are unique. We encourage you to experiment with a variety of approaches, equipment, and
settings until you find what works best for you.

The great thing about digital photography is you can take lots of
photographs without worrying about costs. The challenging thing about
digital photography is you can take lots of photographs. Instead of
boxes, filing cabinets, and binders spilling a chaos of negatives and
prints, we have computers, memory cards, and external hard drives packed
full of image bits and bytes.

Organization and sanity are possible. This series will guide you in
building and using a powerful system to manage your digital chaos.

Infrared photography uses wavelengths of light that are usually not part of the visual spectrum. In this series you’ll learn about the infrared choices
available, how to take infrared photographs using a filter, how to process your
photographs to a high standard and how avoid common mistakes along the
way.